Towards a More Complete Biography of Vittoria Colonna with Ramie Targoff

The life and loves of one of the most powerful women in Renaissance Italy

Harvardianaby Italian Studies at Harvard

May 22 2019

Ramie Targoff , Professor of English at Brandeis University, discusses her new biography Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018). She is joined by Amelia Linsky, Ph.D. candidate in Italian Studies at Harvard University.

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Harvardiana
Italian Renaissance
Ramie Targoff
Renaissance
Vittoria Colonna